Plays 1: The Street of Crocodiles / The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol / Mnemonic

by Complicite

THE STREET OF CROCODILES is inspired by the life and stories of Polish writer Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). "This astounding play creates a vision of provincial Poland in the early part of the century as a restless ocean of unending flux, the miracle of Complicite's interpretation of Schulz's stories" - New York Times

THE THREE LIVES OF LUCIE CABROL is adapted from John Berger's short "The story becomes an unsentimental evocation of peasant life, a hymn to the tenacity of love and a Brechtian fable about the world's unfairness....You follow this Complicite version as intensely as you read a Grimms' fairytale" Financial Times

"An ice-preserved body - from 5,200 years ago - forms the central image of Theatre de Complicite's dazzlingly imaginative meditation on memory and morality. Timely and unforgettable" - Independent

"Theatre de Complicite ignore frontiers and cross them without official papers" - John Berger

Genres: Plays

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 9, 2003

Reviews

[Lila · Rating 2 out of 5]

Weird.

[Elle Reads Books Like · Rating 4 out of 5]

Only read the The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol - university reading

[Brenda · Rating 3 out of 5]

I only read "The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol."

"The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol" relates the tale of a misshapen girl and her hard-scrabble life.

To tell the truth, I can't remember where the play is set, but it has an Eastern European feel to it. The main character Lucie is abused and taken advantage of by her family and others because of her small physical stature and her limited mental abilities.

I suppose the point of this play is the strength of the human will to survive. It just didn't flow well for me, however. I really liked the character of Lucie and would be interested in playing her, but the play itself was only so-so.